Your favourite nobodies

[Malcolm]

Manoj Tiwari, Rajat Bhatia and Jalaj Saxena

 

[cnerd123]

Am I the only one who reads this thread title first up as "favorite noodles" every time i open cricket chat

thick egg noodles all the way

 

[cnerd123]

Manoj Tiwari, Rajat Bhatia and Jalaj Saxena

This reminds me - Siddharth Trivedi was such a gun for RR in the first few seasons.

Copped a 1 year ban for not reporting an approach by a bookie, which was pretty disappointing. Not as bad as fixing, but still pretty bad.

 

[duffer]

Anil Kumble. Just seemed like a decent bloke, despite being very obviously mediocre.

Yeah, a spinner who couldn't really spin the ball. Then again so was Shahid Afridi and good old Anil took many more wickets than him.

 

[duffer]

Manoj Tiwari, Rajat Bhatia and Jalaj Saxena

I remember the days when Manoj Tiwari was being heralded as 'India's Kevin Pietersen'.

Worked out well for us all.

 

[duffer]

oh and also Robin Singh

he was cool

Good player, good bloke.

 

[duffer]

Stuart Binny for me though.

 

[cnerd123]

Good player, good bloke.

was heavily involved with HK cricket for a while. Currently head coach for UAE.

I heard a story that he was offered the position of CEO of HK Cricket a long time ago, and he was will to accept it, on the condition that he remains based in India. He allegedly agreed to no salary, but wanted commission on all the sponsorship money he brought in.

He did not get the job.

 

[Flem274*]

This reminds me - Siddharth Trivedi was such a gun for RR in the first few seasons.

Copped a 1 year ban for not reporting an approach by a bookie, which was pretty disappointing. Not as bad as fixing, but still pretty bad.

icc h4x player iirc

 

[Moss]

Used to like watching Craig Spearman bat, his off-drives and timing were a treat when he got it right which was all too rare for NZ unfortunately. I think Glenn Turner put the idea in his head that he was supposed to be slam-bang one-day opener (he was looking to emulate the Greatbatch/Latham 1992 WC blueprint when he went for Spearman and Astle as an opening combo). Ended up with a terrible international record, but on the India tour of 1999 showed a different side to him when he ground it out against Kumble and Harbhajan in the test series, helped NZ achieve two very creditable draws.

NZ fans seemed to regard him either as complete crap or a wasted talent, would go for the latter. Had some success with Gloucestershire later on so not totally lost to the cricketing world.

 

[Shri]

Good player, good bloke.

Heard he took/asked for bribes in ranji selections like 10 years back from a friend who appeared for TN selection.

 

[Moss]

Heard he took/asked for bribes in ranji selections like 10 years back from a friend who appeared for TN selection.

Attended a wedding in Pondicherry last year and he happened to be at the same venue. Chatted with him for a few minutes and he came across as a good down-to-earth chap for the most part, spoke very highly of his time with the Mumbai Indians. Very dismissive of Tamil Nadu and TNCA though, wonder if there's a lot more to that.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah he was from the AC Muthaiah era and I guess with Srini mama, if you are not with him, you are against him.

 

[Kirkut]

Yusuf Pathan. That gun ODI ton against South Africa

 

[ImpatientLime]

if we're going down the icc route then pankaj dharmani and paul hutchinson both of 2002 fame.

 

[_Ed_]

if we're going down the icc route then pankaj dharmani and paul hutchinson both of 2002 fame.

Matthew Bulbeck too - he was better than Flintoff!

 

[Engle]

The concept of ‘nobodiness‘ is key to a retired cricketer’s relationships:

At a match celebrating Guyana Independence Day, people lined up outside the players tents to get autographs of Clive Lloyd, Lance Gibbs, Colin Croft. But they ignored Basil Butcher, who kept lamenting “ Doesn’t anyone want my autograph ? “ . People looked at him quizzically not knowing who he was.

“ Nobodiness “ may not get you autographs or attention, but at least you can walk the streets free from bother.

 

[Calm_profit]

Sherwin Campbell,In few series he outbatted Lara.

 

[Mike5181]

david houpapa and luke vivian were fun

Luke Vivian is a good one. I remember in the early days of T20 he hit a quickfire 50 odd and the commentators were keen on looking at him in internationals. Seemed to disappear pretty quickly after that though.

 

[andruid]

Pankaj Singh. Made a name for himself in an India A team tour to Kenya. Made a few squad selections. I rooted for him and Sri Lanka's Nuwan Kulasekara to make it big, and Kulasekara did a hell of a lot more.